Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. d. 48, The Martindale leaves - conservation report

Report

This report records the condition and conservation of three parchment manuscript fragments donated in 2025, now MS. Lat. liturg. d. 48. The fragments and their condition before donation are described by Michael A. Michael, ‘The Martindale and Gurney leaves: a dismembered early thirteenth-century Psalter from St Albans Abbey reunited’, Bodleian Library Record 38 (2025), pp. 36-63. The fragments are three non-consecutive bifolia from two consecutive quires of a manuscript. They are now foliated to reflect the original order of the leaves in the bound manuscript, without making allowances for now missing leaves. Before the current conservation the leaves of bifolia 1 and 3 were folded backwards, with the second leaf of each before the first.

Authors: Honey, A

• Publication status: Published
• Publisher: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
• Place of publication: Oxford, UK
• Publication date: 2026-06-01
• Language: English
• Keywords: MS. Lat. liturg. d. 48; Bodleian Library; medieval manuscript; conservation report